The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-12
ToRE OF THE HORROR.
borrowing Details OF the
n'' Latest Catastrophe.
u,us OF WOE AND DESPAIR
,..,,ur Sights ami HeArtrendinK
Hoh - the Scene Of the Terri
Bile Railroad Accident
.au RAILROAD DISASTER.
,.,btc Particulars From the scene
az the Horror.

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-u,-svoRrH. Ill, August 11.-Dr.
,yo-sn Of Fort Madison, Iowa, says the
t-sin was running about twenty miles
-. bour. He felt a sudden jar, and
found himself and wife
FASTENED UEDER THE SEAT.
10 rurlsd the backs of of two seats be-
Ior. he could get his wife out. She was
Sr,,;ssd on the body and both feet were
~a.bed His shoulder was dislocsted
Nd had to be pulled into place as soon
chs could get out of the wreck, and in
balning others he pulled it out of place
aOair and had to have it put
in place the second time.
Ts.,e we're nine persons in his
10 and he can only hear of three OF
sS aar3 vet. BE says he saw Mr.. e. D.
St o hand his boy out to a lady,
gSiIs he crswled back to get his wife
Who was killed.
THE CHICAGO "TIMEs' ACCOUNT.
CHICAGO. August 1.-THE Times
.D.cial from Forest, says: All the rail-
10, horrors in the history of this coun-
t, S' v ,T surpassed three miles east OF
T5stsWorth last night, when an excur-
SION on the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw
dropped THOUGH BURNING BRIDGE
and over a hundred people were killed
and tour times that number, more or
less we're wounded. The train was
composed Of six sleeping, six coaches
and chair cars, and three baggsges. 1t
was carving $50 passengers, all ex-
cnrsionists. and was bound for Niagara
Falls The train had been made up all
along the line of the Toledo, Peoria q
Warsaw Railroad, and the e1cursionists
hailed from various points in Central
Illinois, the bulk, however, coming
from Peoria. Some Of the passengers
came from Canton, ElPaso, Washing
ton, and in fact, the stations all along
the line, and some from west
of Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa.
A special and cheap rate had been made
for the excursion, and all sorts of people
took advantage of it. When the train
drew ont Of Peoria, at O'Clock last
evening it was
LOADED 10 ITS UTMOST CAPACITY.
Every berthin the six sleepers was taken
and the day cars carried sixty persons
each. The train was so heavy that two
engines we're hitched to it, and when it
passed this place it was one hour and a
half behind time. ChatsWorth, the next
station from here, is six miles off, and
the run there was made in seven min
utrs, so the terrible momentum of
those fifteen coaches and two heavy en-
gines shooting through space at the rate
Of q mile minute can be understood.
No stop was made at ChatsWorth, and
on, on the heavy train with its living
freight sped through the darkness of
the night. Three miles east of Chats
worth is little slough, and where the
railroad track crossed q dry run, about
ten feet deep and fifteen wide. Over
this was stretched an ordinary wooden
trestle bridge, and as the train came
numbering down on it, what was the
horror Of the engineer on the front
ehsIue Wnea ne saw
THIS BRIDGE WAS ON FIRE.
Right before his eyes leaped the
onght flames, and the next instant
ne was among them. There was no
chance to stop. Had thers been a
warning, II would have taken a mile to
SVop mat onrushlng mass of wood, iron
and human lives, and the train was
within 100 yards Of the red -tongued
messengers of death, before fhey
dashed their final signals into the en-
smeer's face. But he passed over in
safety the first engine keeping the
falls. As it went over, the bridge fell
beneath 1t, and it could have onIy been
me terrific speed of the train which
ssYeu the lives of the engineer and his
Greman. But the next engine went
down, and instantly
TIE DEED OF DEATH WAS DONE.
Car ran into car, coaches piled one on
sop OF another, and in the twinkling
q an eve nearly 100 people found an
Instant death and fifty more were so
mart that they could not live AS for
as wounded, they were everywhere.
U ~ tne sleeping coaches escaped. and
ssn ne startled and hslf-dressed pas
ibsSV IS came tumbhng out of them
SCENE OF DEATH
Is rarely witnessed and such work to
w - mat it seemed as if human hands
ava,u l''efly incapable. 1t lacked Just
ditch S NANTES IaT = Of midnight. Down in the
McCIintootth Inc second engine, Engineer
fireman 4 me engineer, dead and the
On tnn mn oApplegste, badly injured.
cars Ike neae piled the three baggage
be had S "a q childs card house, afteI
came tbo IL With his hand. Then
VIC SIX day coaches. They were
,ALA<'OPED As CARS NEVER WERE BEFORE
inat three of them were pressed into
o o.s' room enough for one. The second
tS 10. nag mounted off its trucks, crashed
t through the car ahead of il. crusbins
tbers" rOork aside like finder, and Law
every -T naiogg on top of the seats, while
iving dip passenger in the first car was
6ut s. ussu and dying underneath. and
s Az, VI that car but four neonis coma
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